How do I pick more than one winner at once?

Open Settings and drag 'Pick N winners per spin' to the number you need, up to 20. The wheel spins that many times in sequence, hides each name once it's picked, and shows the full winner list at the end, so a single sequence can never repeat a name, whatever your other settings say.

How do I stop the same person winning twice?

Within one multi-pick sequence you don't have to do anything; picked names are excluded automatically. Across separate spins you do: turn on 'Remove winner from wheel after spin' and each winner is deleted from the wheel as they're drawn. Without it, every spin draws from the full list again, and repeat winners are not just possible but likely.

How should I draw first, second and third place?

Draw them one at a time, in descending prize order, with remove-after-pick on: first place, announce, then second from what's left, then third. Drawing them all at once and assigning prizes afterwards works too, but announcing the biggest prize first is better live and avoids any suggestion the order was chosen after the fact.

Should I draw backup winners at the same time?

Yes. Unclaimed prizes are common, and re-drawing weeks later means drawing from a different list, in front of a different audience, with the original entrants gone. Draw your winners and two or three backups in one sitting, announce that backups exist and in what order they'd be used, and the awkward case is already handled.

Does removing winners change the odds for everyone else?

Yes, and that's intended. Each time a name comes off, the remaining entries share the chance between fewer people, so later prizes have slightly better odds than earlier ones for whoever is still in. This is exactly how a physical raffle drum works when tickets aren't returned.

How to pick multiple winners from one wheel

Published on August 14, 2026· 3 min read

By Spin of luck team

First, second, third, and five runners-up, from one list, in one sitting. Here's how to draw several winners without the same person winning twice, and how to handle tiered prizes and backups.

Key Takeaways

'Pick N winners per spin' (up to 20) draws a whole block in one sequence and can't repeat a name; 'Remove winner from wheel after spin' is what stops repeats across separate spins.
Decide before you draw whether one person can take two prizes: it's a rule, not a setting, and it's the thing people argue about afterwards.
Draw in prize order, biggest first, so a draw that gets interrupted has still allocated what matters.
Draw backups in the same sitting as the winners. Re-drawing a week later, off a shorter list, is where fairness quietly breaks.
Export the results while they're on screen; a list of winners nobody wrote down is a dispute waiting to happen.

Single-winner draws are easy. It's the moment you need a first, a second, a third and a couple of backups that things get fiddly, and it's where most giveaways pick up their credibility problems, usually not from the randomness but from the bookkeeping around it.

The one decision to make first

Before touching a setting, decide whether one person can win two prizes. It sounds trivial. It is the single thing people argue about afterwards.

For most giveaways the answer is no: one prize per person spreads the goodwill and looks better. For a multi-ticket raffle the answer is often yes, because someone who bought twenty tickets has genuinely bought twenty chances at each prize. Both are defensible. What isn't defensible is deciding after the wheel has landed on the same name twice.

The two settings that do the work

'Remove winner from wheel after spin' deletes each winner from the wheel as they're drawn. That's your one-prize-per-person rule across separate spins, enforced by the tool rather than by you remembering. Leave it off and every spin draws from the full list, which is what you want for a multi-ticket raffle where repeat wins are legitimate.

'Pick N winners per spin' runs the whole sequence for you: set it to 5 and the wheel spins five times, dropping each winner from the wheel as it goes, then presents all five together. It's the fastest way to draw a block of equal prizes: five identical vouchers, say, where nobody needs to know who was drawn first. The slider goes up to 20.

For tiered prizes, prefer separate spins. The pause between draws is where the announcement happens, and 'and first place goes to…' is worth a lot more than a list of five names appearing at once.

Drawing tiered prizes

Turn on Remove winner from wheel after spin.
Draw the biggest prize first and announce it before spinning again. If something interrupts the draw, the prize that matters is already allocated.
Draw each subsequent tier from the remaining entries, announcing as you go.
Keep drawing for your backups after the last real prize, and label them clearly as backups when you announce them.
Export the results before you close the tab.

One consequence worth understanding: as names come off, the odds for everyone still in go up. By the third draw, a 100-entrant raffle has 98 names left. That's not a flaw (it's exactly how a raffle drum behaves when drawn tickets aren't put back) but if someone asks whether later prizes had better odds, the answer is yes, marginally, and you should be able to say so without flinching.

Backups, and why you draw them now

Prizes go unclaimed. Someone doesn't answer, someone turns out to be ineligible, someone entered twice under two accounts. If you haven't planned for it, you end up running a second draw weeks later, from an entry list that's changed, in front of an audience that's moved on, with only your word that the original winner didn't respond.

Drawing backups in the same sitting removes all of that. Same list, same audience, same session. Announce them as backups in order, give a claim deadline, and the awkward scenario is already resolved in public before it happens.

Keep the record

Winners are on screen for about as long as it takes to read them out. Export the results while they're there; the export includes the picks and the wheel they came from, and it's the difference between 'here's the draw' and 'I remember it being Sarah'.

Pair it with the entry list you drew from. Those two files together let anyone who wasn't in the room reconstruct exactly what happened, which is the whole of what 'a fair draw' means in practice.

When you need a full ranking instead

If you're not picking a handful of winners but ordering everybody (presentation slots, a league table, who goes when) repeated removal will get you there, but the tournament wheel is built for it: it eliminates one entry per round until a single name is left, and gives you the full finishing order at the end.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I pick more than one winner at once?: Open Settings and drag 'Pick N winners per spin' to the number you need, up to 20. The wheel spins that many times in sequence, hides each name once it's picked, and shows the full winner list at the end, so a single sequence can never repeat a name, whatever your other settings say.
How do I stop the same person winning twice?: Within one multi-pick sequence you don't have to do anything; picked names are excluded automatically. Across separate spins you do: turn on 'Remove winner from wheel after spin' and each winner is deleted from the wheel as they're drawn. Without it, every spin draws from the full list again, and repeat winners are not just possible but likely.
How should I draw first, second and third place?: Draw them one at a time, in descending prize order, with remove-after-pick on: first place, announce, then second from what's left, then third. Drawing them all at once and assigning prizes afterwards works too, but announcing the biggest prize first is better live and avoids any suggestion the order was chosen after the fact.
Should I draw backup winners at the same time?: Yes. Unclaimed prizes are common, and re-drawing weeks later means drawing from a different list, in front of a different audience, with the original entrants gone. Draw your winners and two or three backups in one sitting, announce that backups exist and in what order they'd be used, and the awkward case is already handled.
Does removing winners change the odds for everyone else?: Yes, and that's intended. Each time a name comes off, the remaining entries share the chance between fewer people, so later prizes have slightly better odds than earlier ones for whoever is still in. This is exactly how a physical raffle drum works when tickets aren't returned.